How come there were no car bombings under Saddam?

Its a legit question. The obvious answer is that while Saddam was a bastard through and through, he certainly wasn't a western infidel returning for another Holy War.

Personally, I've been so amazed and appalled by the number of folks willing to commit suicidal homicide in Iraq.

 

For the most part they're not Iraqi's. They've been sucked into the vacuum we've created. They're mostly poor Paki's or Saudi's. You know, our allies.

 

Would now be a good time to say that Mussolini made the trains run on time? Come on people.

 

"Paki" is a racial slur in these parts (UK) equivalent to "n!gg3r", just a FYI, I'm sure you don't mean to offend any asian UK posters.

 

Awful. Are there any stats on that floating around cyberspace?

 

You need an answer from me? Well, perhaps because nobody wanted their sisters, wives, and mothers raped, eyes gouged out, and then thrown into shredders. And perhaps there were car bombings that we never heard about. You could make a better argument that the USA would be better off long term with Saddam in charge than the Iraqi people.

 

FYI, asian is a term that generally describes those from countires like china, japan, korea, the phillipines and vietnam (all eg.) in these parts (US). usually its not used to refer to those from pakistan or india.

 

Not a shred of evidence
http://www.antiwar.com/spectator/spec36.html

http://www.hrw.org/wr2k4/3.htm

 

There is a ton of evidence that Saddam's regime practiced torture on a massive scale and killed hundreds of thousands.

 

This is pretty much it. The people killing Americans are mostly Iraqis. The people killing Iraqis are mostly foreigners.

Which is what you'd expect anyway.

 

Right, so then it would be best to use the ton of evidence that's not made up. And the point of debunking the shredder myth is not to defend Saddam, but to point out the danger of dramatic, uncorroborated evidence and its impact on public opinion (especially when spead by sh!t Murdoch rags). The shredder myth certainly had a large impact on the split public of the UK and Australia.

 

The shredder is not a myth, why do you keep calling it that? Even the link you supplied does not call it a myth.

 

If the shredder "myth" was so persuasive but the other heinous crimes failed to move the British and Australian public, we have a lot more things to worry about than the News Corporation.

 

There was a thread on this a few months ago--in the US "Asian" generally carries the connotation of referring to Oriental people (Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Vietnamese) rather than Indians and Pakistanis as it refers to in the UK; and "Paki" is not a racial slur in the US (altho you very, very rarely hear it, which could be why it isn't really a slur).

Anyway, why would al Qaeda car-bomb Iraqis under Saddam? You don't attack your ally.

 

Nice try.

 

True, perhaps, among the geographically illiterate. There are plenty of Americans with more sense, however.

 

Of course there were car bombsin Iraq under Saddam.

He was the one setting them off.

 

i always get a kick out of these gloating idealogical self masturbation threads

 

Actually, there were car-bombings in Baghdad during Saddam's regime.

Thanks to your tax dollars hard at work.

You can't see the whole NY Times article anymore, but the relevant points are:

"Dr. Allawi's group, the Iraqi National Accord, used car bombs and other explosive devices smuggled into Baghdad from northern Iraq, the officials said. ... One former Central Intelligence Agency officer who was based in the region, Robert Baer, recalled that a bombing during that period "blew up a school bus; schoolchildren were killed." Mr. Baer, a critic of the Iraq war, said he did not recall which resistance group might have set off that bomb [although] Other former intelligence officials said Dr. Allawi's organization was the only resistance group involved in bombings and sabotage at that time."

As to the CIA's knowledge or involvement of the car bombing aspect, "The former intelligence officials, while confirming C.I.A. involvement in the bombing campaign, would not say how, exactly, the agency had supported it ... Another former intelligence officer who was involved in Iraqi affairs recalled that the bombings 'were an option we considered and used.'"

 

Given the number and diversity of Asians, the term "Asian" is basically meaningless.

 

????????????

By that definition, so are the terms European and American...............

 

"American" is a political term, not a racial one.

And "Europeans" look aLOT more like each other than, say, a Saudi looks like a Siberian looks like a Sri Lankan looks like a Malaysian.